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every day is all there is
“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
"For me, that’s pretty much it: waking up and being excited and curiously restless to face the day ahead, and being very present with that day, and then going to bed feeling like it actually happened, that the day was lived. There’s nothing more than that, really."
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Instead of waiting for the perfect moment to arise, consider instead that the time you have each day is like having a set amount of money in a bank account that expires at the end of each day. What you don’t use, you lose.
Brianna Wiest • When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spen... See more
Maria Popova • How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity
I aspire to Isak Dinesen’s way: work a little every day, without hope and without despair. What a way to live! To make! To be!
Sari Azout • Things I'm Thinking About
No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler (Introduction) • 1 highlight
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